Sarah Hampson of the Globe and Mail paints a slightly ridiculous portrait of the man self-described as the “Director of the Esthetic”:

• When a man becomes a brand
  “Tyranny of the Esthetic would be a better name for his work. Mr. Manuel is symptomatic of the cultural preoccupation with surface. He is prickly about which physical attributes are real and which are not, perhaps because so much is enhanced or fake.”

Tara Merrin of Sun Media interviews the latest ousted contestant, Gina Guimont:

• ‘Top Model’ a Maxim-type gal
  “I got a lot of comments that I was more the type of girl who’s in Maxim, not a top model. I’ll take that,” she says.

From Metro:

• I lost my shot: Gina
  “I think what did it was I lost my confidence,” she says. “I took the whole reality bubble that I was in – I took it seriously. The judges have to be critical; if they want to create drama they have to tell it like it is, and I took that all to heart, I totally did. I was my own worst enemy. When you’re doing a glamour shoot you have to have all the confidence in the world. You’ve got to bring it and I didn’t have that.”

Gina from Calgary is the Fourth Girl Eliminated From “Canada’s Next Top Model”

• Episode Five Airs Wednesday, June 27th at 8:00pm on Citytv

Gina, an engineering buyer from Calgary, Alberta became the fourth girl eliminated on “Canada’s Next Top Model”, reducing the pool from seven girls to six.

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Craig Courtice of the National Post talks to last week’s eliminated contestant:

• Blame it on the mail
  Stefani Groulx of Cornwall, Ont., couriered her Next Top Model application two days before it was due. The next day she went online to make sure the package had arrived safely. It hadn’t. “I was freaking out,” Groulx says. “If it wasn’t in Toronto, I was screwed. I called Canada Post, gave them my tracking number, blah, blah, blah. They checked the number and they said, ‘You know what? It’s not in Cornwall, but it’s not in Toronto, either. We’re not sure where it is.’